Nnedi Okorafor (Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor) Quotes
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.
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I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.
